The BET Awards are Coming Up and These are Our Picks for winners!

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The 2017 BET Awards are right around the corner! This year was a great year for music, so the competition will be tough. Here are our picks for this year’s winners!

Best Female R&B/Pop Artist

BEYONCÉ
KEHLANI
MARY J. BLIGE
RIHANNA
SOLANGE

Our Pick: Beyoncé

This category is stacked because this season of music included big releases for all of these ladies. However, Beyoncé had the biggest impact culturally and musically. People are still talking about ‘Lemonade’.

Best Male R&B/Pop Artist

BRUNO MARS
CHRIS BROWN
THE WEEKND
TREY SONGZ
USHER

Our Pick: Chris Brown

Chris Brown has had a lot of ups and down this year. However, it still remains that his fan base is untouchable. His relationship with BET is also strong, so that will play a big factor in his win.

Best Group

Our Pick: Migos

Two words. “Bad and Boujee”. That was one of the biggest songs of the year, and Migos has been snagging features ever since its release. As much as I love A Tribe Called Quest (RIP PHIFE), if Migos doesn’t win this award, somebody has some explaining to do.

Our Pick: Bad and Boujee

You, your best friend, your little cousin, and maybe even your mama were all singing this song this year. It can still get a crowd jumping when the DJ spins it.

Best Male Hip-Hop Artist

BIG SEAN
CHANCE THE RAPPER
DRAKE
FUTURE
J. COLE
KENDRICK LAMAR

Our Pick: Chance the Rapper

Even though this category could have easily included some other rappers, like the Comeback Kid Gucci Mane, Chance dominated rap this year. He released a highly anticipated album, fire visuals, and still found time to drop dope guest verses.

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist

CARDI B
MISSY ELLIOTT
NICKI MINAJ
REMY MA
YOUNG M.A.

Our Pick: Remy Ma or Nicki Minaj

Both of the female MCs released some good material, but they also had one of the biggest rap beefs of the year. That will be basis behind the win. BET will definitely try to play into the rap beef for ratings, and will try to spin this winner as the “real” winner of the feud.

Album of the Year

Our Pick: One of the Knowles Sisters

As long as one of Ms. Tina’s daughters take this award home, I’ll be fine. Lemonade and A Seat at The Table changed the narrative for black women and told a story that we have been tired of trying to get the media to understand. There is still work to be done, but both of these masterpieces helped lay the foundation.

Best Actor

Our Pick: Mahershala Ali

He is the first Muslim to ever win an Academy. He was in “Hidden Figures” and “Moonlight”, two of the biggest films of the year. Ali has received universal acclaim for his work in the aforementioned films, as well as his work as ‘Cottonmouth’ on Netflix’s Luke Cage. Give this man his BET award!!

YoungStars Award

ACE HUNTER
CALEB MCLAUGHLIN
JADEN SMITH
MARSAI MARTIN
YARA SHAHIDI

Our Pick: Caleb McLaughlin

This boy has been working! Not only did he star in the BET miniseries, “The New Edition Story”, but days after the premiere he snagged a SAG award for his work in the Netflix hit Stranger Things. This category has a lot of promising talent, but Caleb deserves it a little more.

Best Movie

FENCES
GET OUT
HIDDEN FIGURES
MOONLIGHT
THE BIRTH OF A NATION

Our Pick: Get Out

This is a hard category, so hear me out. If we are talking pure entertainment, Get Out deserves this award. Moonlight, Hidden Figures, and Fences were phenomenal films, but Get Out is one of the more under recognized films.

Sportswoman of the Year Award

Our Pick: Simone Biles

Even though Serena Williams won the Australian Open while pregnant and continues to exude black girl magic, Symone Biles made history at this year’s Olympics. Biles became the most decorated American gymnast and has made a place for herself in the hearts of all Americans.

Sportsman of the Year Award

Our Pick: Russell Westbrook

Westbrook dominated this year! No one can question me on that. He deserves this award and no can say he doesn’t. This man averaged a triple double during the season. Who does that?!?! Oh I know who, Russell Westbrook.